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🗓️ 17 March 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Consider this your pod of gold. Check out The Daily Show's coverage of America's most solemn holiday: St. Patrick's Day.
Jon Stewart reports on St. Patty's crowds, naked bungee jumping, bagpipes and presidential gifts. Mo Rocca digs in to the homophobic fight to keep gay people out of the parade. John Oliver reports from the wrong parade entirely. Trevor Noah learns about St. Patty's traditions, and wonders how masked puking will work.
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
0:09.1 | Pink hearts, yellow moons, green clovers, two black guys, and a nasty hangover. |
0:15.3 | Today is St. Pettys Day, and all over the country, thousands of Angela's asses hit the streets to celebrate, making |
0:22.6 | it a great day for the Irish. |
0:24.6 | But just an okay day if you were looking for a quiet tavern to talk, read or have a white |
0:28.6 | wine spritzer. |
0:30.6 | Here in New York, parade-goers showed their true colors. |
0:33.6 | St. Pact's Day is our heritage. |
0:36.6 | We've got to be here to see this parade in it and respect the other people that are Irish. |
0:42.3 | You know what I'm saying? |
0:49.3 | Some people just command respect for their people, don't they? |
0:55.0 | But not everyone celebrates the same way. |
0:58.0 | Meet Lucy McLaughlin, an Irish woman living in New Zealand. |
1:01.0 | Lucy's stupid. |
1:03.0 | For her, St. Patty's celebration, this plucky Irish lass had someone paint her plucky Irish ass, |
1:09.0 | and then she jumped off a bridge. |
1:13.4 | Lucy came up with the idea after her mother got upset with her for partying with friends one night |
1:17.3 | and said to her, |
1:18.2 | and if your friends painted themselves green and jumped off a bridge naked, would you do that too? |
1:24.0 | Lucy! |
1:27.8 | Lucy, you got some spleenin' too-do. |
1:30.4 | That was amazing. |
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